My research focuses on development of innovative incentives to link individual behavior with environmental conservation and restoration. I am especially interested in the use of payment for ecosystem services as a means of generating new funding for conservation. I have extensive experience in policy research and stakeholder engagement.

Her work focuses on state, regional, and transboundary water resources management and policy, and places particular emphasis on how to acheive desired policy objectives in terms of institutional structures and possible changes to them.

Water demand of the environment in arid systems, how current understanding of water needs of the environment can be used to incorporate it into dialogue on water use, and effective stakeholder engagement in water management and planning.

My research interests lay at the confluence of environmental history and the history of technological change in modern China, particularly after 1949. More specifically, my research focuses on long-term continuity and change in China’s water management on the North China Plain.